diff --git a/src/test/recovery/t/024_archive_recovery.pl b/src/test/recovery/t/024_archive_recovery.pl
index 2d8d59454e..78f06b690a 100644
--- a/src/test/recovery/t/024_archive_recovery.pl
+++ b/src/test/recovery/t/024_archive_recovery.pl
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ sub test_recovery_wal_level_minimal
 	# Confirm that the archive recovery fails with an expected error
 	my $logfile = slurp_file($recovery_node->logfile());
 	ok( $logfile =~
-		qr/FATAL:  WAL was generated with wal_level=minimal, cannot continue recovering/,
+		qr/FATAL: .* WAL was generated with wal_level=minimal, cannot continue recovering/,
 		"$node_text ends with an error because it finds WAL generated with wal_level=minimal");
 }